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Taking a cue from Arvind Kejriwal, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi also lambasted BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on his home turf on Tuesday comparing the Gujarat chief minister to Adolf Hitler and saying that the German dictator always praised his own decisions.

With hardly a month left for the Lok Sabha polls in Kerala, the trouble over seat sharing continued to haunt the two dominant fronts led by the Congress and the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) even after a junior partner switching sides.

Worried over the growing strains with its oldest ally the Shiv Sena on the eve of elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sent a senior leader to pacify its partner here.

This came after the Janata Dal leadership hardened their stand on seat in the wake of the departure of the RSP.

Union Minister Jairam Ramesh, who played a key role in the division process of Andhra Pradesh, has, in a veiled warning to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), said running a state administration was not the same and as easy as spearheading an agitation for separate statehood.

Political migration is the flavour of the season in Andhra Pradesh with simultaneous elections to the State Assembly and Lok Sabha barely seven weeks away.

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Kejriwal attempted to influence the elections with a malafide intention by making false statements with a view to creating hatred for rival parties among the people.

High command ignores opposition from youth and trade wings

The firebrand head of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Raj Thackeray, said he would back Modi, while announcing that his party would also field a handful of candidates for the elections.